how to optimize your social media content for mobile

How to Optimize Your Social Content for Mobile

Blaise LuceySenior Content Strategist

#MobileSocial

Courtney SeiterContent Crafter

Agenda

1 Why It’s Critical to Optimize Social for Mobile

2 How to Optimize for Mobile Social Content

3 Tactics and Strategies to Get Started

4 Some Brands Doing Great Mobile-Optimized Content

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In the hype game, social media is winning.

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But social = mobile

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But social = mobile

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And mobile = sharing

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And mobile = engagement

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And mobile = the future

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SO EVERY SOCIAL STRATEGY for

IS A MOBILE STRATEGY

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Defining Your Audience

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To think about mobile strategies, you need to measure how much of your audience is mobile. Google Analytics lets you do that pretty easily. Here’s the analytics for the Bitly website. We can see that 20% of our traffic is mobile, which is a perfect tipping point to make sure that everything we create is optimized for mobile… especially given that so much inbound traffic comes from social media.

Can mobile users use the website? Can they register for a webinar after coming in from a tweet? Can they download an eBook that gets promoted on Facebook? Always test out what the user experience is like for yourself - it only takes a few minutes. For this webinar, for example, we wanted to run a Twitter Card promotion. So we tested out the registration experience on a phone before paying to run the ads.

Defining Your Audience

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At Bitly, we also use our Audience Intel product (from Bitly Brand Tools) to see how mobile our audiences are across different channels. Here, the orange bar represents the percentage of our social media followers that engage with our content on mobile.

Defining Your Audience

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You can also analyze the most popular day of week or time of day to post across different channels. Some clients use this information to time mobile campaigns or pop-up notifications to maximize engagement.

Defining Your Audience

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Most social media channels have analytics platforms that can offer a breakdown of mobile audiences.

Here, we can see that the majority of Bitly’s Twitter followers are still accessing our Twitter account by desktop.but the difference is only around 20%.

Defining Your Audience

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It isn’t easy to measure the mobile / desktop breakdown of Facebook fans. But if you create a Custom Audience using Facebook Audience Insights, you can take a look at a general breakdown.

Here, we can see audiences similar to Bitly’s Facebook fans use a combination of mobile and desktop… but 20% only use mobile. All the more reason to create mobile social content.

But before optimizing, companies have to develop an app-first infrastructure… fast.

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Ad-blocking apps in iOS 9 block all display ads in the mobile web,

so you need to start focusing on in-app experiences.

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So what’s the app landscape today?

85%of time spent on smartphones is spent within

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But only 28% of companies are using deep linking to personalize

the app experience.

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Deep Links for Mobile + Socialsimplify & personalize the journey from

social to branded apps.

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Paid Social Ads need deep links in order to drive customers to the right place in the app.

Image: Sarlitt.me+#MobileSocial

Facebook Ad(fake)

Zappos Home“Wait… I wanted those

sweet boots.”

Zappos Product“Oh snap. What a deal.

Add to cart.”

vs.

Deep Links for Loyalty & Referrals can personalize the experience for users & drive big results.

Image: Sarlitt.me+#MobileSocial

vs.

Normal StartDownload direct from App Store

Referral StartDownload after clicking on referral link

25% bookings300% signups

Tactics & Strategies to Get Started

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What does mobile-friendly content look like?

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...and in your social campaigns?

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● Are calls-to-action visible & usable on mobile?

● Is the social page easy to navigate?

● How many steps does it take to participate in a mobile social campaign?

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Test How It Looks...

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Responsinator

Browserstack

Screenfly

TOOLS TO USE

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… and How It Works.

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Google’s Mobile Friendly Tester

W3C mobileOK Checker

mobiReady

TOOLS TO USE

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Analyze Mobile Use Patterns

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Understand Mobile Behavior

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On Pinterest...

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...and Instagram

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…and Twitter.

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Find the Right Time to Post

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Content that gets attention: Images

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Content that gets attention: Video

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Great Examples of Mobile Social Marketing

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New York Times: Empathizing with mobile viewers

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Buzzfeed: Focusing on mobile-forward platforms

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Zappos: Embracing the customer journey

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Dominos: Personalizing the experience

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Get Started with

MobileSocial

Content

Step 1: Commit to a Mobile Mindset

Step 2: Understand Your Audience’s Patterns

Ready to get started?

Step 3: Optimize Your Content and Social Strategy

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THANK YOU#MobileSocial

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